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Summary: CONSERVATIVE BIASED
Review: Mr OREILY has a lot of good ideas and has a fresh perspective.Sometimes though this man comes off as a bible thumping conservative.Mr O reilly a little advice there are a lot meaner more untrustworhty people in politics than are president.
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Summary: The Great O'Reilly
Review: Mr. O'Reilly has outdone himself with this book. He writes with a clarity and genuine style that speaks to the soul of every American. He makes sense out of mayhem and provides the reader with facts and applicable solutions. Mr. O'Reilly stresses sensibility and personal responsibility in this wonderful book. It's a must read for anyone willing and wishing to expand and embrace the American experience. Mr. O'Reilly brings great credit upon himself, his profession, and our country as a whole with this great read. Kudos to you Mr. O'Reilly. Sua Sponte Sir!!!
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Summary: The O'Rielly Factor, The Good , The bad , and the ridiculous
Review: A excellent book that really hits on what is missing in the media...The truth. Bill O'rielly tells it like it is and plays favorites to no one. A very good read for people who are sick of the politically correct spoon fed gabage that the media elite has been feeding us for so many years.
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Summary: A common sense guide to life in America
Review: After spending the weekend in the recliner with this book, all I can say is wow. Bill O'Reilly, in his usual take no prisioners style, lays out his guide to taking on America... and winning. He leaves 'no stone unturned.' From topics of taboo such as class, sex, and politics, through jobs, celebrities, and success, he covers all the bases. In his final chapter, Bill O'Reilly shows, as his loyal viewers already know, that he truly is a class act. This book should be required reading for every high school senior in America.
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Summary: If Only I Could Give It 0 Stars
Review: If it weren't for my strong belief in free speech, I would say O'Reilly should be exiled. Ok, a little dramatic. In all honesty, I didn't like O'Reilly even before I read the book, so I was already partial. I feel he simply is too arrogant, doesn't care to hear someone else's point of view, and heaven forbid you disagree with the man, all hell breaks loose. His "No Spin Zone" whirls like a top. Someone said in a review that O'Reilly never claimed to be a news reporter and he simply states his opinion. That would be perfectly acceptable accept for the fact that that's not true. O'Reilly states on his show every night that you are about to enter a "No Spin Zone." That would imply he would be giving a fair and balanced view of a given situation which simply does not happen. I'm not saying I'm a Michael Moore fan, but one night during the "No Spin Zone" O'Reilly's report was how much of a coward Michael Moore is for not wanting to come on the show. Oh Bill, how objective. He also stated that Moore's film was nonsense. No opinon there either, Billy boy. Look, if the man wanted to have a show to simply rant and vent, fine, but don't lie and say there's no spin when there's blatant opinion thrown into the mix. His hypocritism is sickening. He once had a young man on his show by the name of Jeremy Glick. Mr. Glick had a father who was killed in the 911 attack. Because Mr. Glick felt that the government was not blameless in the attack, O'Reilly flipped out and cut his microphone and told him to shut up and that what he was saying was a "bunch of crap." He told him to shut his mouth and he hoped that his mother was not watching. At the commercial break, he said to Mr. Glick, "Get out of my studio before I tear you to #$)%(@#$ pieces." FAir and balanced.. mm hmmm. I know that has nothing to do with the book, but my point is, these are all solid examples of how this man simply is the opposite of fair and balanced, and the book was pretty much the same as the tv show. Unfair, and about as balanced as a sea saw with 500 pound boulder on one end and a six year old kid on the other. Reading the Berenstain Bears is more informative than watching his show or reading his books. Give it up O'Reilly, nobody wants to hear from an opinionated bomb thrower (oh wait, doesn't O'Reilly always say how much he hates bomb throwers?) Oops. Hope he doesn't slap me with a lawsuit!
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Summary: Good Stuff
Review: This was very easy reading and different. It was refreshing to read well thought out ideas. Some of them may be "old fashioned" (but not necessarily liberal or conservative), but most of it is right on target.
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Summary: BUY THIS BOOK--USED
Review: It beats having your drunken, loudmouth uncle over for dinner, or having to listen to the blowhard sitting at the end of the bar. When you are sick of it simply throw it away. But, for God's sake buy it used, you don't want to encourage Bill to write another one.
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Summary: Dirty, nasty, lying, scumbag
Review: I saw this great spoof show the other day called,'FOX News,' it was full of jokers parodying real news reports and reporting them as though they were written by far-right wing nuts. Seriously, it's a hoot!
When I heard that one of the characters from this show had released a spoof ,'book,' I just had to read it.
O'Reilly is a great comedy creation. He says things such as ,'No Spin,' 'Fair and Balanced,' 'Elite Media', and 'Special Interests'...
...and he says these things whilst putting a far right wing slant on everything, lying to his viewers about anything from the topic he is discussing to where he was born, his political convictions and what journalistic awards he has received. He does everything he can to protect the elite establishment and special interests from the glare of adverse publicity.
He is not a journalist just a Neo Con attack hound unfit to lick the boots of the decent journalists he attacks. It would make Chinese state TV blush to be as biased as this guy.
Anyway what a hoot, can you imagine a world where this kind of one sided propaganda was allowed to exist as,'News,' ?
Creating such a far out, journalistic embarrassment could easily have slipped into unbelievability, but with his oily charm and bullying tactics O'Reilly is all too credible. A wake up call to what could happen if News was controlled by one political party.
My congratultions to the writers and creators of, 'O'Reilly.'
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Summary: Who dares to say it?
Review: Very often, people who stick their necks out get whacked. Mr. O'Reilly certainly does that in his book...and he has definitely been whacked for it. I don't think his intent was to be controversial. The views he honestly expresses are controversial by their very nature. Of course it is up to the reader to make that decision.
Sometimes books express things that make readers uncomfortable. Some readers might think that the discomfort they feel means that what they've read is untrue. I like to think that some truisms expressed in Mr. O'Reilly's book make readers uncomfortable because they ARE true. James Green, author of "If There's One Thing I've Learned."
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Summary: Left, right, or middle, this book is poorly written
Review: O'Reilly is reaching for breezy and common-sense witticisms about the state of the country, but he comes off as whiny and unintelligent. Consider the following passage, which he ticks off after implying that a key component of the good ol' days was when a parent could put their kid "in traction" for publicly disobeying their parents:
"...Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote that `it takes a village' to raise children. My parents and their friends thought that it takes parents. They were sorry that some of my friends had maniacs for parents, but they didn't interfere. And they didn't want anyone poking their nose in our house, either."
Aside from the fact that the quote "it takes a village to raise a child" is actually a venerable folk saying, and can't conceivably have originated with Clinton, the idea that it's incompatible with parents raising their own children is a complete misdirection. The book is full of this basic pattern: pull something that someone said, or a statistic or something like that, refute it with a one-liner that must have sounded funny in O'Reilly's head, and then move on to the next topic.
The complete lack of journalistic integrity might have been acceptable if the book were funny, or entertaining, or even light-hearted. But it's not any of those things. O'Reilly panders to the type of ignorant thinking that leads to a lot of anger and violence in this country, and he does it shamelessly.
Despite his insistence that he can't be correctly labeled politically, he is pretty much 90% conservative, and 10% wacky independent.
Also, the book gives repeated plugs for O'Reilly's television show, and offer's his own self-congratulatory autobiographical stories. An autobiography is always suspect; after all, no one has more reason to lie about your life than you. O'Reilly proves that fact by trotting out a series of chestnuts that all portray him as a hero, even dating back to his courageous stance against a nun when he was six years old, taken because he couldn't stomach the lies that an illustration of happy children doing math exercises represented.
I know that because of its political nature, the reviewers on here are just giving voice to their own political agendas. As someone who is always looking for thoughtful books that bear out the ideas of people on both sides of the aisle, I can tell you that this book is trash. The only way this country will be improved upon is by getting beyond the junior high thinking level that this book propagates.
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